Fear

Rhino raised an eyebrow and asked Harold, "What do you mean?"

Harold said, with a serious expression on his face, " I mean to say, Rhino, you are not gay, right? Look, it's okay to be gay. We are your friends. You can tell us."

Rhino was shocked to hear him and said loudly, "What? Are you mad? What are you saying! Showing your masculinity doesn't mean you have to be intimate with girls all the time."

 Harold and Edith laughed out loud when they heard him.

Edith murmured, "Relax bro, we're just kidding."

Rhino seemed to be very upset with their conversation. He thought that all this had happened for that girl. And that girl had to be educated. 

Rhino called Edith and asked, "What class is the girl in?"

Edith answered, "I think she is a freshener. I've never seen it before here."

Rhino murmured, "Hmm, let's go."

 Harold asked, with  questioning eyes, "Where?'

Rhino answered, " In first year class."

 Harold and Edith both looked at Rhino in surprise. 

Harold said with a crooked smile, "Why do you want to go there? Do you want to kiss her one more time, brother ?"

Saying that Harold laughed.

Rhino glared at him and said, "This time you are doing more. I think both of you need to be punished before the girl."

Harold smiled a little scared and said, "No no brother, we don't need any. I love my life. I haven't even got married yet. I haven't become the father of a baby. My brother doesn't want me to die before I settle down, right? Let's punish that girl instead."

 Rhino got annoyed and slapped Harold on his head. Then the three of them left for Calista's class.

Everyone in Calista's class was looking at Calista, as if Calista was a criminal. And the girls were eating her with their angry eyes. Calista was feeling very uncomfortable  at everyone looking at her like this. She didn't understand what was happening to her today. She was crying thinking about what she was thinking and what was happening. In the middle of Calista's thoughts, she suddenly saw that everyone in the class was standing. Calista thought that maybe the professor had come. So Calista and Ezlyn both stood up. But Calista started trembling with fear as soon as she looked in front of her.

" What will happen now? What will they do with me? What do I do if I stop studying? I've sacrificed much so that I can come here and study. That means all my efforts will be in vain!"

  Thinking about all this, Calista's hands and feet were becoming numb. She held Ezlyn's hand tightly and hid her face behind her. They both sat down. So that they cannot be seen. 

Rhino looked around and started looking for the girl. All the girls in the class were going crazy when they saw Rhino. They were all looking at Rhino. They couldn't believe that Rhino was in front of them. But Rhino's eyes were just looking for that girl. 

Rhino walked through the middle of the two rows and went back to look for her. Going backwards, he saw the girl. She was hidden behind another girl. Rhino smiled crookedly and shook his head. Then he gestured to everyone in the class to get out. The poor girls went out one by one making sad faces until the whole class was empty. 

Calista was still hiding behind Ezlyn. There was no one in the class but Calista still didn't know. Rhino also gestured to Ezlyn to leave. Ezlyn looked at Calista and was in a mess thinking what she should do. She couldn't leave Calista alone like this. But she also understood that Rhino had come here to talk to Calista. 

Rhino cleared his throat and told Ezlyn, "What happened?  Didn't I tell you to go from here? Then why are you standing here?"

Hearing Rhino's words, Calista understood that Rhino was standing in front of her. Fear was roaming in her body as if she was barely breathing. She held Ezlyn's hands tightly and hid behind her. She didn't have the courage to look ahead. 

Ezlyn said with a little courage, "Brother, please don't be angry. There is nothing wrong with her. Some senior brothers told her to kiss a person who would come through the main gate. So…."

Rhino raised his hand and stopped her before Ezlyn could finish talking. 

Rhino said with a cold voice, "Did I ask you anything? I don't like to talk too much. I told you to go. Don't worry, I'm not a tiger or a bear that I will eat your friend. I'll just talk to her. You wait outside."

Hearing such words in Rhino's serious voice, Ezlyn did not dare to say anything more.

 She whispered in Calista's ear, "Look Calista, he will just talk. Don't be scared. I'm standing outside."

 Calista looked at Ezlyn and shook her head with pleading eyes. She wanted to say that she didn't want to be alone there. And Ezlyn understood that. 

Ezlyn fell into great trouble. She did not understand what to do. As far as she knew about Rhino, she did not think that he would do anything bad with Calista. But how would she explain it to Calista? Finding no other way, Ezlyn forced herself away from Calista. Calista again looked at Ezlyn with pleading eyes. Ezlyn felt very bad at that.

Ezlyn said, holding Calista's hand, " Don't worry, I'm at the door."

Then she left Calista with a kind of force. Calista also followed Ezlyn. But Rhino came and stood in front of her. Calista stopped walking when she saw Rhino in front of her and looked down. So Calista wasn't able to get out of here.

With her head bowed, she took a deep breath and somehow fixed herself. 

Calista thought to herself, "What is written on my forehead, it will happen no matter what. There is nothing else to do."

The whole classroom is now pin drop silence. No one is in the classroom except Calista and Rhino. Harold and Edith also left with Ezlyn. 

Rhino walked away from Calista and went in front of the classroom and stood near the front bench. Then he looked at Calista who was still standing where she was.

Rhino said in a serious voice aimed at Calista, "Come and sit here."

 Calista had been standing with her head bowed for so long. Her hands and feet were shaking with fear. Her forehead was sweating with tension that she was now alone with a boy in a classroom.

Calista trembled more when she heard Rhino told her to go near him and sit. Somehow she moved forward with trembling legs and sat in the front seat. Not once in so much time she does raise her head. 

Rhino pulled up a chair and sat in front of Calista so that he could face Calista. Seeing Calista's frightened condition, Rhino was getting a lot of smiles in his mind. But he did not show it in his face. Calista was sitting with her head down and was rubbing her hands.  Rhino was staring at Calista.

Rhino thought to himself while looking at Calista, "I came here to show my anger towards the girl. Then why am I not angry? Why ain't I saying anything to this girl? What has happened to me?"

Rhino now wanted to see Calista's frightened face. But Calista was sitting with her head down and couldn't see her face properly.

Rhino said to Calista, "Raise your head. Look at me."

Calista was still sitting with her head down. She did not have the courage to look at Rhino.

Rhino said in a slightly threatening tone, "I told you to look at me."

Calsita swallowed her saliva at Rhino's rebuke. She raised her head in a jerk and looked ahead. Rhino seemed to be lost in the fascination of Calista again. 

A cold breeze blew across Rhino's body. His heart was beating fast again. He began to observe Calista well.

The girl was wearing light blue jeans and a knee length white top. And she wore a veil on her head.  The girl's face had turned completely red with fear. The eyelids were also wet. Both lips were dry. 

Rhino remembered what happened a while ago looking at her lips. The girl kissed him with these lips. A shiver flowed inside Rhino at the thought. Suddenly he noticed that there were red spots on the girl's cheek. It seemed to Rhino that someone had slapped her. Rhino's heart started bleeding in pain at this thought. 

Calista could no longer stand in front of Rhino's gaze. She lowered her eyes again and lowered her head. 

Rhino was looking at her nonstop. It was like his staring was not coming to an end. The more Rhino tried to be hard and strong on top, the more he melted inside like ice cream. Rhino was extremely upset with himself. 

Rhino whispered to himself in his mind, "Come on Rhino. Be like a man. Looking at a girl nonstop and observing her from her top to low doesn't suit your personality. Be yourself."

Then Rhino shook his head and moved a little towards Calista.